 Padé identification of a Radau stability function

Suppose an $s$-stage Runge-Kutta method has order $2s-1$, an invertible matrix $A$, and $b^T{A}^{-1}1=1$. Its stability function is $R(z)=1+z{b}^T(I-zA{)}^{-1}1$. The adjugate matrix formula gives a rational function with denominator degree $s$ and numerator degree at most $s$; its zero limit at infinity lowers the latter degree to at most $s-1$. The order of a numerical method gives $R(z)-e^z=O(z^{2s})$, identifying the $[s-1/s]$ Padé approximant. Uniqueness follows because the cross-multiplied difference of two candidates has degree at most $2s-1$ but a zero of order at least $2s$, so is identically zero. The A-stability of near-diagonal exponential Padé approximants then proves A-stability, and the zero limit proves L-stability. These conditions identify the stability function; they do not alone claim uniqueness of all entries of the Runge-Kutta method tableau.